We’re recruiting Product Managers, Delivery Managers, and Business Analysts to join our dynamic team and drive impactful digital solutions.
If you’re passionate about innovation, collaboration, and delivering value to our customers and colleagues, we want to hear from you!
This is your opportunity to apply your expertise in digital transformation while supporting Ofsted’s mission with professionalism, confidence, and integrity.
You’ll thrive both independently and as part of a team, sharing your knowledge in a constructive and supportive environment.
This is a fantastic opportunity to further your experience in Ofsted’s well-established team. The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.
Job description
Please refer to the candidate information pack for further information.
Person specification
Please refer to the candidate information pack for further information.
Qualifications
Delivery Manager - Agile qualification or equivalent qualification. (Essential) Senior Business Analyst - Business analysis qualification or equivalent professional qualification and/or equivalent experience. (Essential) Business Analyst - Business analysis qualification or equivalent professional qualification and/or equivalent experience. (Desirable)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Product Manager Methodologies appropriate for the different phases of the design/development lifecycle. Identifying and meeting user needs through product design, achieved through effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge of different disciplines and how they contribute to an effective agile team, such as service design, user research, business analysis, and development.
- Delivery Manager Experience in delivering digital projects and products. Experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity. Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams.
- Senior Business Analyst Leading the development of BA approaches to solve organisational problems using a range of Business Analyst tools and techniques.
- Working with businesses in agile/ waterfall environments to turn business needs into user stories/documented requirements. Managing relationships with stakeholders across an organisation.
- Business Analyst Experience of using BA approaches, tools and techniques to solve organisational problems. Identifying improvements and efficiencies within business processes.
- Supporting Senior Business Analysts working with business in agile/waterfall environments to turn business needs into user stories/ documented requirements. Experience of cultivating relationships with stakeholders.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £35,994, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £10,427 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.
Ofsted is devoted to equality, diversity and inclusion. Within our Ofsted Strategy 2023-2027, we have stated that we will improve the representation of under-represented groups across the organisation and publish our progress on this annually.
We are always looking to expand our diverse workforce by recruiting candidates from varied backgrounds and differing experiences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident – Leader, we continually engage with our 5 staff networks for protected characteristics, and highlight the work of our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group.
We ensure all candidates are treated with fair and open competition, with all appointments being made on merit, and we use our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) to provide assurance to all candidates of this.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Application and Shortlisting:
The selection panel will assess your application based on your evidence you have provided against the essential criteria as set out in the person specification.
You will also be asked to provide information within the “Employer/Activity History” section of the application form. This information is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV setting out your career history (this will be used in the sifting process).
Applicants need to submit a single application, which will be considered for their preferred positions. If an applicant does not pass the interview for their first-choice role but meets the required standard, they may be considered for similar roles at a lower grade.
Interviews
Applicants who meet the benchmark at the shortlisting stage will be invited to an online interview, where they will be assessed against a mix of Civil Service behaviours and the experience/technical skills outlined in Section 3 of the job specification.
Interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 12 May 2025 via Microsoft Teams.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals and certain family members of Turkish nationals who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name: People Services Delivery Team
- Email: Jobs@ofsted.gov.uk
- Telephone: 03000 131 487
Recruitment team
- Email: Jobs@ofsted.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should email Ofsted recruitment at jobs@ofsted.gov.uk in the first instance.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recrutiment
